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Zanna

00:01

thanks @Serg :)

Serg

You're very welcome

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Q: Should we keep the zenbook tag

There aready exists tag for asus, and zenbook is sub-family of Asus ultrabook products. From asus tag description: ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated product range includes motherboards, laptops, servers and mobile phones. Since this tag already includes laptops, I believe zenbook is unnecessary...

Zacharee1

@Serg I'm answering

Serg

@Zacharee1 nuuuu, imma staph yew

ｊｋ

Zacharee1

wat y

hao der u

Serg

00:05

ｙｅｓ, i deer

edwinksl

       -ass (FreeType only)
              Turn  on SSA/ASS subtitle rendering.  With this option, libass will be used for SSA/ASS external subtitles and Matroska tracks.
              You may also want to use -embeddedfonts.
              NOTE: Unlike normal OSD, libass uses fontconfig by default. To disable it, use -nofontconfig.

ass :P

Serg

dat a$$ doe

edwinksl

man mencoder is quite the manpage

Serg

mencoder, to encode programs into men

Zanna

wow! you're right @edwinksl check out those examples!

Serg

00:08

Aaaaand that was really not star-worthy, please remove that before mods scold me for poor spelling and grammar . . . .and for those shell symbols

edwinksl

@Zanna i was just scrolling through to see how much content there is and i felt i was scrolling for way too long

Serg

@edwinksl 9411 lines on 80 chars wide terminal window

o/ hi, chili555 !

Nice seeing you again

chili555

@Serg Thx, nice to see y'all this fine evenin'!

edwinksl

people should ask all their broadcom questions while chili is here

Serg

:)

No, no. Give the man a break

edwinksl

00:12

the man might actually like them :P

chili555

Oh. Em. Gee.

Serg

Just a question, chili555, do you use Unity as desktop ?

chili555

On my every-day laptop, yes I do, @Serg

I have an old laptop running xubuntu and Mrs. Chili is a fan of KDE

Serg

Lately, I've been writing a few indicators for Unity, so looking for ideas and taking requests, so if you ever have an idea for indicator, feel free to ask :)

chili555

Awesome, @Serg. Thanks.

Nathan Osman

00:22

@chili555 Hi!

chili555

Hi, @NathanOsman What's going on tonight?

Nathan Osman

Not much.

Enjoying the Saturday.

chili555

Seems quiet tonight. Probably a good thing.

Zanna

heh it can only be @chili555 magic - I just got an accept on a wireless question I answered in April

chili555

Good job! I usually try to beat y'all to the punch but I miss a few!

Zacharee1

00:27

@Serg posted

whew

Zanna

@edwinksl I can't even get to the end of this man page hahaha

Zacharee1

@Zanna this is competition ;p : I got an accept ~1 week ago for an answer from January

Zanna

I remember that @Zacharee1 haha you win ^_^

Zacharee1

:p

Zanna

it's waaaay past my bedtime, later all :) :)

chili555

00:29

G'night, @Zanna

Zacharee1

nuu marble took mah anser askubuntu.com/questions/817626/whats-the-meaning-of-i-in-ssh/…

ack

speedvote

chili555

Basically, Read The Friendly Manual!

Zacharee1

yes, "Friendly"

made that a while back at the request of a certain Serg

chili555

LOL!

Zacharee1

script request? askubuntu.com/questions/817629/…

@Serg

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

00:40

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Q: kill a java process after it was running for one hour.

I need a script that will murder java processes that have been on for more than one hour, Can someone please help? Thank you!

ubuntu process java

Zacharee1

uh

0

Q: kill a java process after it was running for one hour

I need a script that will murder java processes that have been on for more than one hour, Can someone please help? Thank you!

java process

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 quote man page, ez 5 upvotes

Zacharee1

wow

David Cole - Grammar Police

00:56

-23

Q: open exe in ubuntu without wine or any other windows compatibility layer

Well, I tried to open some exe files with wine, like Minecraft team extreme. It ran, but it was lagging too much! Can someone please help me run an exe file without Windows/DOS/Wine because I lost my CD of the one that contains Windows?

windows wine

Zacharee1

yisss

got the accept

David Cole - Grammar Police

For the life of me I cannot find out what on EARTH Minecraft Team Extreme is

Zacharee1

most DVed answer?

David Cole - Grammar Police

yep

Zacharee1

@DavidCole-GrammarPolice cracked launcher

David Cole - Grammar Police

00:57

Yea I can see but I cant find a download that isnt scam or spam

Zacharee1

well it's hard to find cracked launchers that are on legit sites :p

David Cole - Grammar Police

Mm true

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

03:25

yawwwn

streches

David Cole - Grammar Police

It's depressing that it took 2 hours after my last mesage for another chat to come up

edwinksl

03:36

well it is saturday night, nobody is home

David Cole - Grammar Police

sighs

Except me <:[

Terrance

I am home too! ;)

David Cole - Grammar Police

Oh golly

Terrance

We're having a party! Haha

David Cole - Grammar Police

uTorrent does not like it when you use multiple ethernet connections routed to one vpn

Terrance

03:40

That is actually good to know. :)

David Cole - Grammar Police

Of course I am using a 15 year old piece of tech

Terrance

Ah

David Cole - Grammar Police

Its insane it can handle the speeds that it can

I've tapped all my neighborhood's main cable grey boxes to my house as main priority of packets

Terrance

I'm not going to ask how you did that, but cool! :)

David Cole - Grammar Police

it involved actually running cables underground

not the easies thing to do un-noticed

easiest*

Terrance

03:43

I bet

edwinksl

doesn't sound legal

David Cole - Grammar Police

define "legal"

There's actually no law (I've looked far into this) that says I cannot tamper with the order of packets sent and received between a client destination and a box, so that's pretty much fine, the only hard part was that it was a "Port 1 gets #1 priority, 2 gets second, etc." and I didn't know which was mine so I had to route an entirely new cable, mind you better than what cable provides.

Nathan Osman

I finally found the dumbest thing on the Internet.

David Cole - Grammar Police

ooh what is it?

Nathan Osman

I've seen some dumb things but this tops them all.

Windows XP Startup Sound slowed down to 24 hours

►

David Cole - Grammar Police

03:48

XD

Terrance

OK, that hurts the ears.

edwinksl

Josh Daum3 days ago
Mom said one more video before bed

Nathan Osman

Watch this one next:

10 Hours of Paint Drying

►

I think that comes in a close second.

Terrance

WOW!

Do they have one of grass growing or watching a pot boil? ;)

Nathan Osman

I'm going to go out on a limb and say yes before checking.

edwinksl

03:52

@NathanOsman question is how did you find these things

Nathan Osman

@edwinksl Oddly enough, one was recommended to me.

Nooooooo idea how that happened.

Watching Grass Grow

►

edwinksl

hahahah youtube knows you better than you know yourself

Nathan Osman

That is sad.

Terrance

Nice!!! :D

Very cool! My new script for turning off DPMS and screensaver works when watching full screen video without interrupting what I am watching! Yay!

edwinksl

05:10

@Serg this seems to be related to your meta post about spam detection. it looks like a linebreak could circumvent the spam detection.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: fast retransmit does not work

Fast retransmit says that if 3 dupacks have been received by sender, then the sender should retransmit the lost packet. But my tcpdump output shows that it didn't work like this. It didn't retransmit the packet even more than 10 dupacks have been received. Why didn't it apply fast retransmit? Doe...

ubuntu tcp ack

Serg

07:36

@edwinksl the OP of that other question which has spam detection issues seems to be a cutie, :D

Welp, spam detection can be circumvented, i knew that before

Zanna

07:58

great answer @Anwar :) askubuntu.com/a/817704/527764 I learned something

Jacob Vlijm

@grooveplex looking at this very moment. Nicely written, very readable etc., but I couldn't get it running, right? I have a few purely syntax- related things and a few outdated things. Will email you somewhere today. compliments! looks really familiar to read :)

Serg

08:17

＠Anwar askubuntu.com/a/817715/295286

Zanna

I disagree that a blacklist file should only contain the word blacklist and the name of a module. My blacklist .conf file for btsdio is as follows:

# is a scoundrel of the foulest ilk
blacklist btsdio

I think all that is entirely necessary

Serg

@ZAnna btsdio is a module

Zanna

yes and?

Serg

My point remains , that file should have only - blacklist + module_name

Zanna

haha I was jokin'

like, the blacklist should also have a snarky comment

to remind you why you blacklisted that module

or just to make you laugh when you look at it

even your example has comments :)

Serg

08:28

OOooooo, now I see that comment, “a scoundrel of the foulest ilk” . . . sorry, my shell of a brain ignored that line ( see what I did there? shell ? nervous laugh )

. . . . I'll see myself out . . . . (not really)

Zanna

hahahaha that's hilarious

shellbrain

it's a good thing!

:)

From that question anyway, seems that the OP already deleted those wacky lines from the file

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to Learn Linux (A to Z)

I am using Ubuntu for last 1 year as a Primary OS. Everything is fine in Ubuntu except the Bug in WiFi. It frequently disconnecting and some time the Network Adapter Unable to find any WiFi Network. It automatically goes down. The worst thing is that it never goes up with “IP Link “ command also....

ubuntu

Anwar

@Zanna thanks :)

Zanna

I think your answer is right because we have no idea what else was done to the file

and by default it contains a lot

and anything could happen if buggy modules get loaded

grooveplex

@JacobVlijm "couldn't get it running"? What error message did you get?

Anwar

08:35

agreed

Serg

@JacobVlijm @grooveplex what are you guys trying to run ?

Jacob Vlijm

@grooveplex TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

@Serg a script he sent me...

Serg

@JacobVlijm use .decode() after the object

@grooveplex Ooo, script, can I see that ?

Jacob Vlijm

@grooveplex but there is something else that cannot work:

posts['data'][i]['id']

id needs to be an integer

@grooveplex Ah, waitwait, I am working with lists too much, my bad...

grooveplex

08:52

Do you have requests?

Jacob Vlijm

@grooveplex Also, since the shebang is missing, I read it as python3! Only when I saw "raw_input", I noticed it was python2... Now only requests is missing :)

grooveplex

pip install requests

About the shebang, it's duly noted

Jacob Vlijm

...also your print() command suggests python3

...It runs fine now!

grooveplex

@Serg met maybe another day. It's not that useful if you don't know Dutch anyway.

Jacob Vlijm

...You might want to bind Return to "Yes", but I'll add it to the comments I'll send :)

I love it.

Jacob Vlijm

09:16

@grooveplex just send it to you. Hope it is useful. Some comments are literally repeated, since they apply to the same situation.

Serg

09:30

. . . . .

Jacob Vlijm

@grooveplex just one more important thing, just sent it. Have fun :)

Zanna

10:01

@CristianaNicolae I rejected your edit here because you removed the text and showed the screenshot instead. This isn't recommended as the error message isn't searchable or copy-pasteable if it only exists in a picture :) askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/609900 The screenshot is redundant so I just made the link to it visible in my edit, some might prefer to have the image visible too. I think I did right here, but anyone is welcome to correct me

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: No free space available on the Linux partition

I recently installed Qt creator (community edition). Uptil this moment I had up to 6Gb free (of 40.8GB) in my Linux (Ubuntu) partition. After that I tried to download the CUDA toolkit. But I cannot download it. It is constantly showing that there is no available space (0 bytes free). Gparted show...

linux ubuntu out-of-memory

CodeX

10:27

Jacob and Serg together

Zanna

it's sooo quiet

Zacharee1

@Zanna IS IT REALLY? ITS QUIET HUH? I HADNT NOTICED

;)

Zanna

aha someone is here! gotcha!

Serg

IS IT QUIET THOUGH?

Zanna

I am looking at my pancakes statement and wishing maple-syrup did exist in my cupboard ---->

I am supposed to be going to Notting Hill Carnival though, so should save space for rice 'n' peas

EOL I think askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/609918

Serg

10:40

I just had a few pieces of chicken and a few canned mushrooms . . . Don't wanna eat too much, just snacking

Zacharee1

gooys stahp

ich habe hunger

Serg

Well go have a snack of something

Zach's Snacks

Zacharee1

It's 6:45

still waking up

Sprechen über Deutsch askubuntu.com/questions/817745/…

@Zanna so do I

Serg

We need more users who can translate German

Zanna

I love that though FUNKTIONIERT NICHT

what we need is @ByteCommander ^_^

it seems like he has been away forever

Zacharee1

10:48

@Serg Byte, Video, probably Jacob, people I'm forgetting

Rinzwind probably knows German too

@Zanna NEIN FUNKTIONIERT NICHT

Serg

@Zacharee1 Byte is on vacation, videonauth is busy with real-world stuff, and I don't recall @Rinzwind speaking any German

Zacharee1

He's Dutch and knows English, so he probably at least understands German

Serg

@Zacharee1 did you VTC that question by the way ?

Zacharee1

the German one?

Serg

yeah

Zacharee1

10:51

Ferrybig also appears to be Dutch

@Serg yes

Serg

Good. @Zanna can you VTC that one as unclear , too ? Thanks

Zanna

OK done

Zacharee1

does the t-mobile.com site load for anyone?

Serg

@Zacharee1 downforeveryoneorjustme.com/t-mobile.com

It's just you

Zacharee1

well the website loads

but it's blank

it looks like ABP went rampant

it's had a phase lately where disabling it on the site still doesn't disable it

Serg

11:03

@Zacharee1 nah, works alright, even via proxy.

Zanna

@Serg hahaha

thanks for that site

Serg

:D Sharin' what others shared with me, that's all

Zanna

that's how stuff gets better ^_^

Zacharee1

11:38

bro askubuntu.com/questions/817772/configuring-bro-ids

TIL <blockquote></blockquote> is recognized by SE askubuntu.com/questions/817771/…

Zanna

did the bro person repost? askubuntu.com/questions/817709/…

oh no, new question

Zacharee1

@Zanna check the shell name. They're in as su

which they shouldn't be doing when editing profiles and paths

Zanna

indeed

re your comment, I don't think they nano anything, just entered the path to the non-existant file

jokerdino

they nano'ed node.cfg at pwd

Zanna

oh yeah I read to the end!!!

omg

I need sleep

Zacharee1

11:51

yeah they just nanoed in some random dir

Zanna

based on the other question, I think they are completely lost

Zacharee1

heh

All US variants of the Note 7 are rooted

with a Sprint userdebug build

Zanna

12:15

sweet

Zacharee1

Apparently, a T-Mobile debug build has also been leaked, but no one really knows where it is

Samsung's doing a bad job at keeping things to themselves

Zanna

hahaha

Zacharee1

the bootloader unlock for my Note 4 (also works in Note 3 and S5 and some others) was pretty interesting

Samsung has some blob in aboot (the kernel stuff) that is the string for an unlocked device

Rinzwind

@Serg I can

Zacharee1

there's also a string in the eMMC that will either match the string in aboot or won't

jokerdino

12:19

hi @Rinzwind

Rinzwind

yo

Zacharee1

@Serg HA! :p

Rinzwind

F1 is amazing _O-

Zacharee1

The two strings are compared every boot

@Rinzwind Help?

jokerdino

I forgot today is Sunday.

Zacharee1

12:20

The section of the eMMC that has this string is only supposed to be writable once, protected by hardware

Rinzwind

@Zacharee1 with? am on my phone >:-D

Zacharee1

but it was only write protected by a bit that could be changed

@Rinzwind wat

jokerdino

I am at that point of life where I can't tell the difference between weekend and weekdays.

@Zacharee1 Formula 1 racing

Rinzwind

@Zacharee1 at Spa for the F1 racing

Zacharee1

ah

lol

Rinzwind

12:21

just had a mega crash

jokerdino

@Rinzwind awesome

Rinzwind

yellow cae

r

think it was magnussen

9 laps and 6 with a safety car D:

jokerdino

at least let's hope race doesn't end with safety car

Rinzwind

here we go again :D
back later (had to post a pixs on a forun :D)

jokerdino

nice

Rinzwind

12:28

red flag :S

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Review audits should NOT include questions with bug reports

I just "failed" a review audit. I saw the question and read the comments. Comments directly under it included: add yourself to the "affected" people :) (see the "reported" link in my answer) And comments / contents of other answers referred to a specific bug in Launchpad (including a link t...

feature-request

Serg

12:54

@Zacharee1 HA what ?

Zacharee1

@Serg he does know German :p

Serg

@Rinzwind in that case, can you please translate that German post and edit it?

Serg

13:24

@Zanna em, I personally would edit it to include attribution, but if that's impossible, maybe ask on Meta what to do

you removed it before i could post, aw

Zanna

haha sorry, I realised it had been reworded

it's very clearly from the Arch wiki, but slightly modified

It needs updating anyway, because, afaik, systemd and not acpid now handles acpi triggers

Serg

So . . . I need advice guys . . .several of them actually . . .about school and works stuff, if no one is against me going off-topic here . . . just a bit

Zanna

off what topic? what was the defined topic? I talk rubbish here every day ;)

Serg

:D well, we sort of stay around Ubuntu topic . . . but anyway

so . . .I got a grant . . .which means i can go register for classes . . .

Zacharee1

@Serg we were fixing Nathan's Windows yesterday. What's this "off-topic" you speak of?

Serg

13:28

@Zacharee1 mkay, valid point

Zacharee1

@Serg oooh. Does that mean you can do that English teaching thing you wanted to do?

Zanna

hey congrats on the grant!

Serg

@Zacharee1 no, that means i can continue studying my engineering crap :p

Zacharee1

well that's good too :p

Serg

And my mother does want me to do that, so likely i will register . . .and i do want to graduate as earlier as possible . . . but at the same time i kind of think maybe i should just slow down and keep on searching something external , like i already applied for a few jobs ( but never heard from them )

Zacharee1

13:31

I think you might be able to get a job at Canonical, since you're so good at making all those features for Unity

Serg

I mean . . . I can't word it clearly obviously. I guess i'm just unsure what to do - just keep on taking classes or take a break and try to find a job related to my engineering or to Linux, or whatever else

Zacharee1

Imagine how much more you could do with them if they were included in Settings or something

Serg

@Zacharee1 they don't have positions open in Denver though :/

Zacharee1

Do they have online stuff?

Serg

dunno . . .

Zacharee1

13:33

lotta stuff in China and Taiwan

Serg

@Zacharee1 actually . . . they do have home-based jobs $_$

Zacharee1

heheheh

Zanna

hehehe

Serg

Em . . .i found only one for North America though . . . Sales Executive :/ out of my league

I dunno where I am going with this. I think the simple plan for now is just to go back and ask if the university computer labs can take me back for this semester. Then we'll see

This is not reliable though. What happened this summer is that with lost classes, i lost the labs job

No classes == no university job

I gotta look for something else i think

Anwar

good evening

Serg

13:42

Good morning :) 7:42 AM in Denver

Anwar

@Serg morning :) Exact opposite here 7:43 PM

Zanna

evening @Anwar :)

Anwar

noon :)

@Serg are all of them VTs too? I wasn't sure. that's why didn't VTC

Serg

@Anwar those are technically device files, but they are linked to different things.

Anwar

hmm. I thought so.

Serg

13:50

Things like /dev/tty123 can be used to interact with the system

/dev/ttyS01 for example is for serial connection

So suppose you have a server running, and you come with laptop to it, plug in serial to USB cable. Then you can run screen /dev/ttyS01 and you will log into server

This is the same for raspberry pi or arduino

Those guys create /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyACM0 files

Anwar

Sounds cool!

Serg

/dev/tty ( no number ) is special though. It refers to current terminal ( form which you view that file )

For example

$ echo "HELLO" > /dev/tty
HELLO

Anwar

thank you. i think you should write an answer.

Serg

I'll write an answer on the duplicate . . .

Anwar

as I am considering it non-dupe. though ...

your choice :)

Zanna

13:55

I think you should write the answer on the dupe, not the target, as it will be easier to find (heresy)

but where are we talking about?

Zacharee1

14:20

what is this answer askubuntu.com/review/late-answers/610012

Reject this edit askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/610004

this is a mess askubuntu.com/questions/816406/using-ssh-to-access-ubuntu

Serg

god i wish there was an option to "save as draft" the answer being written

Zanna

I flagged VLQ because I can't understand it

Zacharee1

@Serg copy the text and refresh, ignoring saved data warnings. Voila, it's still there

Zanna

@Serg I think SE does a good job of autosaving, but i always paste into a text file if I get halfway through and need to abandon

Serg

No, i mean like save it. walk away, come back and continue writing, instead of keeping a tab open

Anwar

14:26

a must have feature

Zanna

I would love to know how Ubuntu generates locales since it apparently doesn't use locale.gen

Anwar

anyone knows where is kf5doctools dev package?

Zacharee1

who flagged this EOL askubuntu.com/review/close/607190

OTA-12 was released on Aug 9

Zanna

that's weird... good to see reviewers are on it :)

@Anwar I suppose it's not kdoctools-dev ?

Anwar

thanks. found it

Zanna

14:32

what was it?

Anwar

it's kdoctools-dev

sorry for that

Zanna

oh, good to know

no I appreciate it, couldn't find the doctools I wanted for compiling something else recently

Anwar

I'm compiling konversation from latest source for 16.04

Zacharee1

lol askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/610000

Zanna

are you working on that konversation questions @Anwar ? I had a brief look at it and it seems to want the whole of KDE >_<

Anwar

14:36

yes.

Zanna

hahaha I wrote that before i read your comment

Anwar

I think, it would work. testing on a vps

Zanna

I decided I probably don't even have enough free space to install everything it wants

Anwar

though i'm not sure if it breaks something in kubuntu

Zanna

I saw your answer and upvoted it this morning

I would expect it to be easy to install in Kubuntu

Anwar

14:38

same here. but let's see

Zanna

But OP is not using KDE I think?

Anwar

Not sure. I thought OP is

Zanna

I was going to ask, but I saw you were on it, I thought, OK, I will leave this one to @Anwar , he will do a better job :)

Anwar

you could ask. it would help :)

still 63%

that edit should be rejected imo

Zanna

cmake was just laughing at me, it was like oh really? you think?

Anwar

14:43

you compiled whole KDE for Arch or installed binary?

... and another abandoned question askubuntu.com/questions/817802/…

Zanna

I just installed binary with pacman

and not full KDE, just plasma-desktop package

Anwar

oh. I think i too should start using Arch

Zanna

I love it... I have to give this laptop back to my friend this week, so no more Arch :(

but probably another old laptop will fall into my hands sooner or later

Anwar

Oh. ArchWikis are best documentation I found

Zanna

ikr, so good

Anwar

14:48

100%! yes!! completed

Zanna

hehe maybe that person just went for lunch, not abandoned forever

woohoo! well done! ^_^

imo they should try to startx before installing lightdm, since if x does start then you can be reasonably sure the dm is the only thing missing

Anwar

Should I test it locally? I don't think so. I used a 16.04 machine

Zacharee1

IZ RESOLVD askubuntu.com/questions/817772/configuring-bro-ids/…

Anwar

I'm not sure about that question. and it's <your-word-here> when OP suddenly stop responding

Zacharee1

hueheuheuheuheue

Anwar

14:51

the OP said my comment suggestion worked :)

Zacharee1

which op

Anwar

@Anwar success ! The command sudo apt install lightdm followed by sudo reboot worked perfectly. You're a legend, thanks. Mons — Mons 2 mins ago

Zacharee1

ah

@Zanna so I already have the Custodian badge on Meta o_O

Zanna

I think I might have already had it too...

@Anwar awesome! ^_^

@Anwar write an answer

Anwar

written. hope they bother returning to the question

Zanna

14:56

have an upvote in case they don't bother

Zacharee1

@Serg askubuntu.com/questions/817828/…

Serg

looking

Zanna

I can't quite get what they want the output to be

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